FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tracing: Fix the race between registering 'snapshot' event" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 0bbe7f719985efd9adb3454679ecef0984cb6800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xiao Yang <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:51:45 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix the race between registering 'snapshot' event
trigger and triggering 'snapshot' operation

Traced event can trigger 'snapshot' operation(i.e. calls snapshot_trigger() or snapshot_count_trigger()) when register_snapshot_trigger() has completed registration but doesn't allocate buffer for 'snapshot' event trigger. In the rare case, 'snapshot' operation always detects the lack of allocated buffer so make register_snapshot_trigger() allocate buffer first.

trigger-snapshot.tc in kselftest reproduces the issue on slow vm:
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cat trace
...

ftracetest-3028  [002] ....   236.784290: sched_process_fork: comm=ftracetest pid=3028 child_comm=ftracetest child_pid=3036
     <...>-2875  [003] ....   240.460335: tracing_snapshot_instance_cond: *** SNAPSHOT NOT ALLOCATED ***
     <...>-2875  [003] ....   240.460338: tracing_snapshot_instance_cond: *** stopping trace here!   ***

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index dd34a1b46a86..3a74736da363 100644
@@ -1088,14 +1088,10 @@ register_snapshot_trigger(char *glob, struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
 			  struct event_trigger_data *data,
 			  struct trace_event_file *file)
 {
-	int ret = register_trigger(glob, ops, data, file);
-
-	if (ret > 0 && tracing_alloc_snapshot_instance(file->tr) != 0) {
-		unregister_trigger(glob, ops, data, file);
-		ret = 0;
-	}
+	if (tracing_alloc_snapshot_instance(file->tr) != 0)
+		return 0;
 
-	return ret;
+	return register_trigger(glob, ops, data, file);
 }
 
 static int